Efficient and Robust Search of Microbial Genomes via Phylogenetic Compression
Karel Břinda, Leandro Lima, Simone Pignotti, Natalia Quinones‐Olvera, Kamil Salikhov, Rayan Chikhi, Grégory Kucherov, Zamin Iqbal, Michael Baym
This paper introduces phylogenetic compression to efficiently search large microbial genome collections, achieving significant compression improvements and enabling fast BLAST-like searches on desktop computers.
Nature Methods · Apr 1, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics